Books:

2012: Contributor, Black Cool: A Thousand Streams of Blackness, Soft Skull

2011: Contributor, Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey, Aria

2010: Author, Irrésistible, Furthermucker Press

2009: Contributor,
Music + Travel Worldwide: Touring the Globe Through Sounds and Scenes, Museyon Guides

2007: Contributor,
Approaching Literature in the 21st Century, St. Martin’s

2007: Contributor,
33 1/3’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, Continuum Books

2007: Editor, Bronx Biannual Issue 2, Akashic Books

2006: Contributor,
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers, McSweeney’s

2006: Author, There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Continuum Books [Read an excerpt]

2006: Editor, Bronx Biannual Issue 1, Akashic Books

2004: Author, Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises, Akashic Books [Read an excerpt]

Fiction:

2007: “Numbers Up”, Bronx Noir, Akashic Books [PDF]

2007: “The Wu-Tang Candidate”, Bronx Biannual Issue 2, Akashic Books [PDF]

2006: “Threesomes”, RuthiesClub.com

2006: “Irrésistible”, Wanderlust: 14 Erotic Tales, Plume

2005: “Peg Entwistle Will Have Her Revenge on Hollywoodland”, NatCreole.com

2004: “Diva Moves”, Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract, Washington Square Press

From TheHuffingtonPost.com:

10.30.2011 / Interview with Colson Whitehead

08.25.2011 / Touré, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness: “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Black”

08.16.2011 / “Why I Left Paris”

From The Believer:

03.2012 / Interview with Jeffrey Wright

06.2007 / Interview with Terence Trent D’Arby [PDF]

04.2005 / Interview with Sarah Jones

11.2004 / Interview with August Wilson [PDF]

From PopMatters.com “Paris Noir” column:

09.06.2006 / Alvin Ailey Dance Theater + French breakdancers: “Rock Steady Revelations”

04.19.2006 / Interview with comic artist Paul Pope: “Batman, Africans, and the Pope’s Superheroics”

03.20.2006 / Kanye West live at Le Zénith: “College Dropout Studies
Abroad”

01.26.2006 / Basquiat exhibit + Maripol photos at Colette: “Public
Figure Him Figurehead”

01.05.2006 / 2006 France Riots: “No Replastering…The Structure Is
Rotten”

11.23.2005 / The French hiphop literati: “Hiphop Négritude”

09.22.2005 / French-African Festival Rue Léon: “Africa Talks to You”

08.02.2005 / Why I left the US: “The Complexities of American Exile”

06.30.2005 / Walking tour through the 18th arrondissement: “Strollin’”

05.24.2005 / Joshua Redman live at New Morning: “The Joy of Sax, Part I”

04.27.2005 / Hiphop Summit + Nas live at Le Zénith: “Summits,
Disciples, and the Love Below”

03.23.2005 / Bohemian B-boy leaves Harlem for France: “Why Paris?”

From The Village Voice:

03.09.2010 / Gorillaz, Plastic Beach: “Gorillaz Get Serious”

12.09.2008 / Britney Spears, Circus: “On Britney Spears’s Sadly Generic Circus”

11.04.2008 / Labelle, Back to Now: “Labelle Update Their Sound on Back to Now, But Not Too Much ”

05.06.2008 / Madonna, Hard Candy: “Madonna’s Hard Candy”

03.04.2008 / Erykah Badu, New Amerykah: Pt. One (4th World War): “Erykah Badu: The Plebeian, Militant Homegirl”

02.12.2008 / Michael Jackson, Thriller: “Michael Jackson’s Nigh-Unstoppable Thriller Gets the 25th-Anniversary Treatment”

12.11.2007 / Wu-Tang Clan, 8 Diagrams: “Enter the 37th Chamber”

07.31.2007 / Common, Finding Forever: “Common’s Simple Denominator”

07.24.2007 / Prince, Planet Earth: “Purple Drizzle”

03.30.2007 / Macy Gray, Big: “Still Tryin’”

02.01.2007 / Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll Essay 2007: “Insanity and Other Mutations”

11.27.2007 / Jay-Z, Kingdom Come: “Hova’s Slight Return”

10.16.2006 / Janet Jackson, 20 Y.O.: “Lose Control”

09.15.2006 / Method Man, 4:21…The Day After: “Tical 2006: The Falling Off”

08.03.2004 / James Baldwin, Native Sons: “Dear Jimmy, Deal Sol: Old Letters Between Friends”

07.29.2003 / Greg Tate and Alex Hahn, Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience and Possessed: The Rise and Fall of Prince: “Deep Purple”

07.03.2002 / Lauryn Hill, MTV Unplugged 2.0: “Reality Soundbites”

03.29.2002 / Mark Anthony Neal, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic, “Generation Hiphop’s Aesthetics”

01.23.2002 / Interview with comic writer/artist/director Frank Miller: “Thwack! Batman’s Back”

12.27.2001 / Kevin Powell, Step Into a World: “Lyrical Gangstas”

09.19.2001 / Michael Eric Dyson, Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac: “Black Blueprint”

08.29.2001 / Aaliyah Obituary: “The Highest, Most Exalted One: Aaliyah, 1979-2001”

08.01.2001 / At a Literary Retreat, Authors Debate the Mainstreaming of African-American Lit – “The Black Book”

07.18.2001 / Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat: “Portrait of the Artist’s Girlfriend”

06.27.2001 / Tricky, Live at Irving Plaza, “Kind of Blue”

09.20.2000 / Wyclef Jean, The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book: “Ecleftic Ladyland”

01.26.2000 / D’Angelo, Voodoo: “Prophecy Fullfilled”

01.19.2000 / Rakim/Jay-Z, The Master/Vol.3…Life and Times of S.Carter: “The Passing of the Mic”

12.15.1999 / A Tribe Called Quest/Q-Tip, The Anthology/Amplified: “New Abstract”

03.03.1999 / The Roots, Things Fall Apart: “Love Jones”

03.01.1999 / Pazz & Jop Music Critics Poll Essay 1999: “Tribal Movement”

01.13.1999 / DMX, Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood: “One-Man Dialogues”

From Salon.com:

06.13.2008 / In Defense of Michelle Obama: “Baby Mama Drama”

04.03.2008 / Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple: “Hiphop’s Biggest Clowns”

From Mean:

09.2007 / Interview with Julie Delpy: “She’ll Always Have Paris” [JPG]

11.2007 / Interview with Marion Cotillard: “Belle on the Ball” [PDF]

From Rolling Stone:

10.03.2000 / Do or Die, Victory

04.27.2000 / Bones Thugs-N-Harmony, BTNHResurrection

07.08.1999 / Inspectah Deck, Uncontrolled Substance

06.18.1998 / DMX, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot

03.23.1998 / Daz Dillinger, Retailiation, Revenge and Get Back

01.30.1997 / Erykah Badu, Baduizm

From Dazed & Confused:

09.2007 / Facing Off: Blackface, Minstrels and Hiphop [PDF]

From The Nation:

12.23.2002 / Interview with Russell Simmons: “Russell Simmons’s Rap”

From L.A. Weekly:

03.12.2003 / 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin’: “Ghosts vs. Boasts”

03.13.2002 / Alanis Morissette, Under Rug Swept

07.17.2001 / Nikka Costa, Everybody Got Their Something

01.10.2001 / Wu-Tang Clan, The W: “Can’t Go to Sleep”

12.19.2000 / LL Cool J, G.O.A.T.: “Beat Baggage”

06.26.2000 / Pearl Jam, Binaural: “Midnight Sun”

02.23.2000 / Smashing Pumpkins, Machina/The Machines of God: “This Is the Rock”

01.12.2000 / The Notorious BIG, Born Again: “Word According to B.I.G.”

11.24.1999 / Dr. Dre, 2001: “Still D.R.E.”

04.28.1999 / Nas, I Am: “A Dollar a Holler”

02.10.1999 / Foxy Brown, Chyna Doll: “Myth Master”

07.10.1998 / Lenny Kravitz, 5: “Power of Flower”

From The Washington Post:

08.26.2006 / Christopher John Farley, Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley: “Redemption Song”

07.16.2006 / John Strausbaugh, Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult and Imitation in American Popular Culture: “The All-American Skin Game”

From Expatica.com:

03.2006 / Registering my son as an American citizen in Paris – “Americans Born Abroad”

From King:

05.02.2007 / Interview with Stan Lee: “King Me: Stan Lee”

From Poz:

07.2003 / Fela Kuti exhibit at NYC’s New Museum of Contemporary Art – “I Go Shout Plenty”

From Launch.com:

10.22.1998 / Interview with A Tribe Called Quest: “A Love Supreme”

07.22.1998 / Interview with Jermaine Dupri: “A Talk with JD”

03.13.1998 / Interview with Tricky: “Nearly God, or Just Dirty-Faced Angel?”

02.03.1998 / Interview with Scarface: “Scarred for Life”

From The Source:

1998: Interview with A Tribe Called Quest

2002: Interview with Q-Tip

2003: Interview with Common

From Spin:

1999: Profile of The Roots

1999: Interview with RZA

From Oneworld:

2001: Interview with Erykah Badu

2003: Interview with Marilyn Manson

2003: Interview with Sinéad O’Connor